by Jason | Aug 21, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 15 August, the Libyan National Army (LNA) mobilized its forces from Tobruk and Marj to the Oil Crescent and declared a state of emergency in the region following reports of Ibrahim Jadhran allied militias traversing to the Wadi Zamzam area. The LNA has allegedly...
by Jason | Aug 14, 2018 | ISIS
On 13 August, ISIS Wilayat Barqah released a eulogy in their “Caravans of Martyrs” of Kenyan fighter Abu Mousa al-Keni. On 9 August, ISIS claimed in its latest al-Naba newsletter (no 143) that they had raided a Libyan National Army checkpoint close to Fuqaha in Jufrah...
by Jason | Aug 14, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 11 August, the Libyan National Army conducted airstrikes from its al-Jufra airbase targeting Benghazi Defence Brigade (BDB) forces located near al-Saddadah. This follows reports of Ibrahim Jadhran linked militias, including BDB and Chadian elements, regrouping near...
by Jason | Aug 14, 2018 | International actors
On 9 August, the House of Representatives (HoR) Committee of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation declared Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone as a ‘persona non-grata’. The decree is in response to his comments during a television interview last week which...
by Jason | Aug 14, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 14 August, the House of Representatives (HoR) held its fourth session to date to discuss and vote on the legislation for a constitutional referendum. The session was disrupted when a police officer was reportedly shot by accident when local HoR member Saleh...
by Jason | Aug 7, 2018 | ISIS
ISIS affiliated social media accounts have released a list of over 200 hundred names of Misratan fighters from al-Bunyan al-Marsous (BAM) as targets for assassination. The week before the BAM spokesperson, Mohammed Al-Ghusri, stated in a TV interview that the recent...
by Jason | Aug 7, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
Ahmed Abdul Karim Hamza, an official with Libya’s National Human Rights Committee, has stated that several mosques through Libya have being used by ISIS and al-Qaeda to radicalize and recruit youths. The official identified some of the locations as Tripoli, Bani...
by Jason | Aug 7, 2018 | International actors
On 2 August, South Korean redirected the naval ship “Munmu the Great” from anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden to Libya in order to protect South Korean commercial vessels. This action is thought to be a “show of force” in response to a video released on 31...
by Jason | Aug 7, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 1 August, the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) killed a man thought to be from the al-Burga militia near the Ispan roundabout in the Tajoura area of Tripoli. On 31 July, the al-Bugra militia set up checkpoints between the al-Andalusi and Ispan roundabouts on the...
by Jason | Jul 31, 2018 | ISIS
Additional details have emerged surround ISIS’s attack on a police station in Uqaylah in Eastern Libya. On 24 July, ISIS fighters arrived in as many as five vehicles and attacked the Uqaylah police station in the early hours of the morning, killing one policeman. The...
